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Walmart in China / edited by Anita Chan.

Contributor(s): Chan, Anita.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2011Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: vii, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780801477317 (pbk. : alk. paper); 080147731X (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780801450204 (alk. paper); 0801450209 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Wal-Mart (Firm) | Discount houses (Retail trade) -- China | Discount houses (Retail trade) -- United States | Business enterprises, Foreign -- ChinaDDC classification: 381/.1490951
Contents:
Introduction: When the world's largest company encounters the world's biggest country / Anita Chan -- I: The Walmart supply chain -- Walmart's long march to China : how a mid-American retailer came to stake its future on the Chinese economy / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Outsourcing in China : Walmart and Chinese manufacturers / Xue Hong -- Walmartization, corporate social responsibility, and the labor standards of toy factories in South China / Yu Xiaomin and Pun Ngai -- Made in China : work and wages in Walmart supplier factories / Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu -- 2. The Walmart stores -- Corporate cadres : management and corporate culture at Walmart China / David J. Davies -- A store manager's success story / David J. Davies and Taylor Seeman -- Practicing cheer : the diary of a low-level supervisor at a Walmart China store / Scott E. Myers and Anita Chan ; translation by Scott E. Myers -- Working in Walmart, Kunming : technology, outsourcing, and retail globalization / Eileen M. Otis -- 3. Walmart trade unions -- Unionizing Chinese Walmart stores / Anita Chan -- Did unionization make a difference? : work conditions and trade union activities at Chinese Walmart stores / Jonathan Unger, Diana Beaumont, and Anita Chan -- Workers and communities versus Walmart : a comparison of organized resistance in the United States and China / Katie Quan.
Summary: What happens when the world's biggest retailer and the world's biggest country do business with each other? A group of experts from several disciplines examine the symbiotic but strained relationship between Walmart and China.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: When the world's largest company encounters the world's biggest country / Anita Chan -- I: The Walmart supply chain -- Walmart's long march to China : how a mid-American retailer came to stake its future on the Chinese economy / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Outsourcing in China : Walmart and Chinese manufacturers / Xue Hong -- Walmartization, corporate social responsibility, and the labor standards of toy factories in South China / Yu Xiaomin and Pun Ngai -- Made in China : work and wages in Walmart supplier factories / Anita Chan and Kaxton Siu -- 2. The Walmart stores -- Corporate cadres : management and corporate culture at Walmart China / David J. Davies -- A store manager's success story / David J. Davies and Taylor Seeman -- Practicing cheer : the diary of a low-level supervisor at a Walmart China store / Scott E. Myers and Anita Chan ; translation by Scott E. Myers -- Working in Walmart, Kunming : technology, outsourcing, and retail globalization / Eileen M. Otis -- 3. Walmart trade unions -- Unionizing Chinese Walmart stores / Anita Chan -- Did unionization make a difference? : work conditions and trade union activities at Chinese Walmart stores / Jonathan Unger, Diana Beaumont, and Anita Chan -- Workers and communities versus Walmart : a comparison of organized resistance in the United States and China / Katie Quan.

What happens when the world's biggest retailer and the world's biggest country do business with each other? A group of experts from several disciplines examine the symbiotic but strained relationship between Walmart and China.

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